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Question 1

Chagrin

Answer 1

Keen feeling of mental unease

Question 2

Meliorate

Answer 2

To make better or improve

Question 3

Undermine

Answer 3

To weaken; injure; destroy

Question 4

Promulgate

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To promote or make widely known

Question 5

Obloquy

Answer 5

Strong public criticism or verbal abuse; disgrace

Question 6

Recompense

Answer 6

To compensate

Question 7

Diaphanous

Answer 7

Light, delicate, translucent

Question 8

Inimical

Answer 8

Tending to obstruct or harm; unfriendly; hostile

Question 9

Pernicious

Answer 9

Having a harmful effect in a gradual or subtle way

Question 10

Benign

Answer 10

Having a kind disposition; gentleness

Question 11

Contumacious

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Stubbornly or willfully disobedient

Question 12

Endemic

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Characteristic of a specific people or place

Question 13

Irresolute

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Uncertain

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Seditious

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Action promoting rebellion

Question 15

Cabal

Answer 15

Group of people united in a plot

Question 16

Artifice

Answer 16

Clever or cunning expeditions; trick; craft

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Hegemony

Answer 17

Influence or authority over others; social,cultural, ideological influence over others

Question 18

Imprecation

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Curse

Question 19

Plucky

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Spirited, brave

Question 20

Ribald

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Crude, offensice

Question 21

Traitorous

Answer 21

Guilty or capable of treason

Question 22

Politic

Answer 22

Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; artful

Question 23

Myopic

Answer 23

Lack of foresight